Los Angeles school district suspends homework limit policy

By staff and wire services reports

July 22nd, 2011

A new policy that caps homework as a percentage of a student's overall grade has been suspended, the Huffington Post reports. Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy announced Wednesday that the policy, which limited homework's weight to 10 percent of a student's grade, was enacted without enough public input. The policy went into effect July 1…